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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Legislative hobbles: A "Jim-Crow" law for the District of Columbia; U. S. Prohibition for foreign embassies in Washington. He lives at the Washington Hotel, keeps no motor, rides the street cars. He takes no physical exercise, does not "give a damn" for society, dancing, cards. Chief conversational topics: the glories of the Old South, keeping down the "nigger." He calls spades spades and has referred, on the Senate floor, to water closets, the smell of Negroes, giving Negroes hot baths, etc., etc. He has called President Hoover a "Mussolini" and the Civil Service "the most damnable, iniquitous system ever...
...chief trouble with the so-called "reading period" is, as mentioned above, that laboratory work, perhaps fifteen hours a week in a single course, is not interrupted. Secondly, the literature on the subject matter of even the most highly specialized courses is so vast that two or three weeks scarcely gives one time to organize his reading campaign. A lengthening of the reading periods, accompanied by a cessation of laboratory work, might help matters from the point of view of the reading period, but in Comparative Anatomy, for example, the work is covered all too quickly...
...subject termed "Cramming" is a favorite with most editorial writers. Every college student knows so much about cramming. Whether he has indulged in this mild sport of learning "a la lump" or not, he is aware of the advantages and the evils. The chief complaint against cramming is that a large body of material gone over at a rapid pace late at night does not "stick." This is, indeed, most unfortunate. If only cramming had among other things, certain adhesive qualities, the worries of many students would be at an end. Those who are veterans would be exonerated from that...
...Chief factor in the sudden change was information from Washington that the Government would apply $100,000,000 of its revolving fund to help out the wheat market. As wheat closed last week at 98, and as it costs about $1.23 to raise a bushel, it was difficult to see how much lasting good $100,000,000 would do in an 880 million bushel crop. Traders, however, did not pause to work out the economics of the situation. The fact that help was coming was sufficient. Furthermore, the market had been oversold, and prices forced below their natural level were...
...Chief financial figure in Kolster is Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels, board chair man. Chief radio expert is Engineer Frederick A. Kolster. Born in Geneva, Switzer land, transported to Boston, Mass., at the age of two, Mr. Kolster was originally destined to be a musician. His family came to this country, indeed, because his father had been engaged to play a violin with the Boston Symphony. Young Kolster therefore soon had a violin handed to him. But his small hands did not well adapt themselves to the instrument and when to the violin was added a piano, Engineer Kolster, rebellious, entered...